The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28

| votes, one legislator CHOSEN by them to
help restrain the public traffic in liquor,
or any act, instead of indirectly aiding
the liquor democratic party, they will
have some right to ask temperance
people to go with them. Until that
time they ought at least to be little
modest Boston Traveller.
KENTUCKY is getting tired of its
state constitution. 1t is only about
generation old, but it presents the
anomaly, for instance, of forbidding
free negroes to live in the state, be-
sides affirming that the right of property
in slaves is "before and higher than
any constitutional sanction" The ex-
IRENE bourbon element is not ashamed
of such standing reminder of the bar
barous era, but the progressive people
of the state feel differently.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Manches-
ter On. H. Mirror d Farmer, writing
of the Vermont state fair, remarks:
And all this in one of the greatest agri-
cultural states in the Union-a state whose
people were never smarter than they are to-
day, where activity, intelligence and public
spirit are shown on all sides and where
home products in some kinds are the best
in the world and in others hard to beat.
Residents of other states, especially those
of New Hampshire, may learn many things
in Vermont, and an occasion like the one
which Is the talk of Vermont people to-day
is place to gain the information.
NOWHERE in the world is there such
another series of large cities as that
which, beginning at Boston, terminates
at Washington. In the line are New
York, which, including Brooklyn and
other dependencies, does not come
very far behind Paris in population;
Philadelphia, with its million; Boston
and Baltimore, with half million
each; and Providence, Newark and
Washington, small by comparison with
the giants, yet themselves of giant
size.-Philddelphid American.
THE alleged scheme which demo-
cratic paper claims to have discovered
to make General Sherman the repub-
lican nominee for the presidency next
year is entirely too thin. 1t bears the
ear-marks of invention. For instance,
it is alleged that John Sherman is in
favor of it, because he is convinced that
his own election, if nominated, would
be doubtful. All Senator Sherman's
friends know that this is false, for the
senator is firmly convinced that his cleo
ton is certain if he can compass the
nomination. Toledo Blade.
THE fathers of this country strove to
abolish poverty by individual effort and
not by mass-meetings and societies
with high-sounding names, in which
the passing of the hat and some frothy
eloquence are the main features. The
liberty of every man to own the land
that he tills, to buy and sell and i'm
prove it, more than anything else has
made America glorious. Take that
right away and you not only take away
every incentive to progress, but sap the
individual neutrality-suspicious. of the
people. Wheeling Register.
THE prophet who few years ago
said that agricultural fairs would soon
"play out" has gone into some other
business. Fairs still flourish, proving
in most sections as popular as they
ever were. These fall exhibitions have
gradually improved. They embrace a
greater variety of the fruits of industry.
Farmers are raising better stock and
better fruits, and consequently when
they come together at the end of the
season the display tells the story of i'm
proved methods and more profitable
rewards of labor. The character, too,
of the fairs has been elevated There
is less reliance upon meretricious de-
vices to draw crowds. -Iroy Times.
Mr.. HAYES was present in Philadel-
phia, the other day, with the rest of the
dignitaries who had been honored with
invitations to participate in the cere-
monies of the occasion. But was there
one man in the crowd that gazed at the
eX-president who did not regard him
as, to say the least, man whose title
to the honors he was receiving was not
good ?-Richmond Dispatch. This is
at once disgraceful and insolent. The
title of Mr.. Hayes to the office of presi-
dent was as good as that of General
Grant, and better than that of Cleve-
land, who was elected by the nullifica-
ton of the Constitution in the southern
republican states.-Cincinndt CONNER
cidl Gazette.
SENATOR HIsCoCK says of the one
idea parties: 81 don't believe they are
for the benefit of the people or for the
benefit of the government. One idea
or one class together must always be
weak. l believe in all classes CONSOLE
dating together and consulting their
interest, but having done that it is al
ways best that they should find ex-
preston for their ideas through some
party which is not based and founded
upon a single principle. What shall
we do in this country when we have
parties made up of the labor party, of
the farmers, of the merchants, each
one representing distinct organiza-
ton? They will he powerless for any
good end, and the result of it will be
that wherever they find expression,
either in the executive or the legislative
offices, they will be fragmentary and
without conference"
PROFESSOR j. II. PATTON has given
much study to the tariff question, and
this has led him to a consideration of